In an example of H1B indirectly taking jobs, I've seen the case where the company toasts its IT staff in favor of a third party software/outsource agreement, and the third party's workers were damn near all H1B folks. Ray Shahan "Life is what happens while you're busy making plans", John Lennon > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Wonsil [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:42 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: <<OT>> H1B revisited > > > > > I guess our H1B friends "Knew the Way to San Jose." > > > > On a more serious note, Detroit just observed the 20th anniversary of the > death of Vincent Chin. A couple of laid-off autoworkers thought the 27 > year > old Chinese man was Japanese and beat him to death with a baseball bat. > Incredibly, the two men were only given fines and probation. > > http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/nchin24_20020624.htm > > I hope that the frustration toward the government and businesses is not > taken out against our "H1B friends" and that we don't see a repeat > performance of what was truly an incredibly ugly event. > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *